A default purchase order and, if needed, a release number can be assigned to a ship-to or bill-to customer in Customer Maintenance. If both are assigned a default value, the ship-to numbers override the bill-to numbers. The system populates the Customer PO # and Release# fields with the default value during order entry, but you can edit or delete them, as needed.
Note: Customer purchase order numbers cannot contain a tilde (~).
If you create a sales order that has default numbers assigned, and you change either the ship-to or bill-to customer on the order, the default P/O and Release numbers will not change. You must delete or change these numbers manually.
On orders with multiple generations, the system asks whether to apply the Customer P/O # and Release# changes to all generations, or only to the current generation.